Gary,

I just went through this after my strop was stolen from my hotel room from one of the cleaning staff (dont even get me started ) At any rate, I just used a regular belt I wear with jeans. Not super smooth like a dress belt, but not a weird texture either. While it probably didnt work as well as a good strop (especially not one of Tony's) it did work pretty damn well, and I got some good shaves out of it.